skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you ask a financial advisor for advice on investing half your net worth on 5x leverage in an liquid asset with one customer and one location, they'd think you're crazy.
Implementers failing to prioritize doing some legwork during the free trial period also costs time for the sales organization of the selling party.

From the sales side, if we see the prospect the finding a solution is a low enough priority that their engineers can’t spend time in two weeks to simply look at a solution, then they might not be an ideal fit for the product (they don’t enough business pain, don’t have a champion, and/or don’t have an economic buyer to prioritize the purchase of a solution).

This is of course highly dependent on the nature of the software and the ideal customer profile of that solution, but the fact that there’s two sides of this coin is something to keep in mind.
I started efforts on a script to take voice recordings from my iPhone and transcribe them into markdown I can load into Obsidian. I still like to take handwritten notes, but it is tedious to always type these out into Obsidian.

This solution lets me just quickly read them in to the default voice recording app on the iPhone.
I like your analogy on the gagging of the guy screaming fire. this is a very good and clear way to put it thanks. that guy deserves a ban from the theatre for sure ;)
Their website is beautiful.
Yeah it is a bit odd to say that the #1 requirement is that the software be free for 30 days, that would disqualify a bunch of critical infrastructure.
You can take money and pay off your mortgage or you can take that same money, throw it in a low cost index fund, and keep the mortgage. Most people are going to end up better off with the later. Cash has the illusion of being safer but start talking about inflation and it starts to lose its luster.
Israel currently denies the right to vote to more people that its government controls the lives of than it grants the right to vote for. This is because it wants to be both a Jewish (demography-first) and democratic (equal-representaition-first) state.

I'm very aware of why this is the case and the history. This is the current case on the ground. Palestinians do not have their own state (according to Israel), so they are occupied and have all their imports, exports, water usage, food intake, ability to earn money, etc. etc. regulated and controlled by a government they cannot vote for, while a minority of people on the other side of a wall can vote for that government.

That's a democracy in name only
I have a method. Remove your headphones and listen to your teammates. I've always used the "fucks per-hour" as a measurement of productivity.

For the uninitiated, the more fucks, the more productivity.. ie, they are looking at the code and trying to do something.

True story-- at my first job the fucks were so bad they moved some of us into our own offices.
Unrelated to the article, but did Andruril pay the Tolkien estate for their name? “Flame of the west…”
Thanks a lot for the elaboration and resources, very interesting!
"hardware accelerated" CSS transforms take ~30% of one CPU thread in Chrome, thats a very specific definition of great :(
Any recommendation for black and white architecture photography books?
Something like:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tjintjelaar/

or

https://www.ezrastoller.com/new-gallery-1

I'm aware of well known black and white photographers like Ansel Adams, Brett Weston, Paul Caponigro, Michael Kenna, John Sexton etc etc. Their works are typically about landscape/nature.
Quite interesting to see how effective a supplier for the US military can be. Assuming that each of their technologies is actually able to deliver, this is extremely impressive, especially compared to what the usual suspects put out.
Central London has gone mostly 20mph and it seems successful. The traffic wasn't very fast there anyway.

Wales did a 20mph in all urban areas thing and it's been a bit mixed I think. Some people ok, some changing back.
We're revamping the Caddy docs this year.
Democratization of Text-to-Video Models Will Launch Us into Hyperreal Cyberspace
Seems odd to post 1850 answers then all of a sudden regret it. I wonder why…
A better title would be "designing the front-facing layout of rectangular-only cabinets", and that's generous.

I find this an odd exercise in using something ill suited for a purpose in an extra complicated way, just to solve an already solved problem.

Do you want to quickly throw together a kitchen design idea? IKEA has a full-featured tool just for that. Want something lower-level? Start with Tinkercad, Sketchup, all the way to Inventor or Solid Works.
Ask HN: AI for Story Writing?
I have played around with using ChatGPT 4 to write short stories.

But I have never been satisfied with the results or how the voice of the writing sounds.

Have you found a way to overcome this or do you use a different AI model or technique that gives you results you like?
> Interesting - so essentially calling a "non-const" (mutable) method invalidates any existing references to the object, with this being implemented at compile time by not allowing the mutable method to be called while other references are still alive ?

Yes, exactly.

> How exactly is this defined for something like index() which is returning a reference to a different type than the object itself, and where the declaration doesn't indicate that the referred to T is actually part of the parent object?

Only if they have the same lifetime (the 'a in my example). For example, imagine a function that gets an element of a vector and uses that to index into another vector. You might write it like this:

fn indirect_index<'a, 'b, T>(v1: &'a Vec<usize>, v2: &'b Vec<T>, i: usize) -> &'b T {
let j = v1[i];
&v2[j]
}

The returned value is not invalidated by any future mutations of the first vector, but only the second vector, since they share the lifetime parameter 'b.

> What happens in Rust if you attempt to use a reference to an object after the object lifetime has ended?

This is prevented at compile time by the borrow checker. E.g.:

// this takes ownership of the vec,
// and just lets it go out of scope
fn drop_vec<T>(_v: Vec<T>) {
}

fn main() {
let v = vec![1, 2, 3];
let x = &v[0];
drop_vec(v);
println!("{x}");
}

This program fails to compile with the following error:

error[E0505]: cannot move out of `v` because it is borrowed
--> src/main.rs:9:14
|
7 | let v = vec![1, 2, 3];
| - binding `v` declared here
8 | let x = &v[0];
| - borrow of `v` occurs here
9 | drop_vec(v);
| ^ move out of `v` occurs here
10 | println!("{x}");
| --- borrow later used here
I’m curious, did the reinstall everything approach work in the end?
Well, there are quite a few monarchies where people enjoy freedom of press. (You probably meant “absolute monarchy”.) On the other hand, I am not sure what the lack of freedom of press in one country has to do with these events in another. Looks like a straw man to me.)
Currently evaluating alternatives for hosting images rn. Open to any suggestions!
Compressed air energy-storage is notoriously low-efficiency compared to the alternatives.

The idea is that this is a hedge: if it turns out that solar/wind become "too cheap to meter"? Then "efficiency" is meaningless and what matters is cost-per-unit-storage and the hope is that compressed-air will be able to store and output more joules-per-dollar than any other storage method (regardless of how many more joules you had to put in first).
This is an awesome program highly recommend. Used to be called Soundflower back in the day but BlackHole works better and works with new M series Mac’s. Awesome!
New study reveals age-related brain changes influence recovery after stroke
I wonder how a free-tier compares to a 6- or 12-month free trial period.
Sure there is. What hope do citizens have in exercising the right to vote if their leaders control what they can and cannot read and hear?
I've become enamored of this typeface as well as of this morning, moved even if I'm honest, but I'm having trouble finding one that looks as nice as the bible page sample in the OP. I made this account here just to ask; which version have you been using, and where did you get it?
> We have heard from several sources who told us that the reason for these firings is because Rebecca Tinucci, former head of Tesla’s EV Charging division, resisted Musk’s demand to fire large portions of her team.

A woman stood up to him, so he fired her and her entire team?
Hypochondria Never Dies
A fellow tea drinker! It is perhaps the one dietary habit that I've never regretted taking on. All things in moderation, of course... but tea is truly something special.

It's funny that you mention helmets, actually. For years when I was younger I could not afford a car, so I had to get by on a motorcycle. I worried about safety for years only to one day get plowed through, in broad daylight, at an intersection, by some fool trying to run a red light! Needless to say... they never noticed my hi-vis gear. There is no doubt in my mind that I would be dead today had I had not been wearing a helmet. If by some miracle I did survive, my face would have been completely scarred beyond recognition.

There is no moral to this anecdote of mine -- a helmet saved my life, but even I have to admit that helmets aren't always practical. I've long since moved somewhere where I never have any need to drive... yet even now I will occasionally rent one of those sidewalk scooters and zip around on a whim (usually without any helmet, naturally).

This is all to say that I agree with your stance that perfection is impossible. There's always more one could do, so we all have to draw our own lines somewhere that makes practical sense. It's why I'm very evidence-oriented when it comes to how we communicate about these things -- that's the only way to help others make informed decisions and avoid future regrets. On that day, it wasn't overly inconvenient to wear a helmet... so I wore it. This half-hearted choice is what ultimately saved my life.

I wish you luck in developing your course. Teaching is the highest calling that there is and I have trust in you to do it well. My (unsolicited) advice is to take an iteration-first strategy and allow the content to develop organically as you explore it with your pupils. In my own (limited) experience, teaching is not all that different from the scientific method -- it works best when starting from a position of being willing to accept any and outcomes.
4 years apparently. That seems quite short for the claimed capabilities. Especially given how frequent cost/time overruns are for military suppliers.
Thanks for the polite comment!

> When did they do this? As I remember they did not promise free upgrades, but was forced to provide them anyway for some games because of the backlash.

It's been a while, but I think it was with Horizon Forbidden West

> PS4 controllers

I agree this one needed a bit more nuance. I understand they wanted to incentivize the new controller features, but it's the fact that the PS5 is technically capable of using those controllers (since you can use them for PS4 games) but Sony chooses to not allow it that's anti-consumer. Also since you can use PS4 controllers to play streamed PS5 games on PC or PS4 itself.

> How did they raise the price of consoles?

In August 2022 they increased the console price by ~10% pretty much all over the world except the US. Microsoft did the same in June 2023.
Here are some links that might help visualize what is going on:

https://www.naftaliharris.com/blog/steinviz/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUqoHQDinCM (this video actually references the original post)

My takeaway is that the volume of points which get worse as they are pulled towards point P exists in some region R. As the number of dimensions increase, region R's volume shrinks as a % of the total cloud volume, making it much more unlikely that a sample is pulled from that region. In other words, you are more likely to sample points which move closer to the center than move away, which is why the estimator is an improvement on average.
I feel like they are already very similar in the sense that any answers you read should be assumed as being wrong first and let them prove they are correct before putting something in your code.
The documentation split is unfortunate and the GUI really just a status page. The other points are a strength. A pattern that works well: Put all Traefik config in your Docker container definitions, as command line flags and labels, plus the dynamic config provided as a volume. That gives you all the flexibility and only one or two places to look for the config (e.g. a Docker compose file and the dynamic config file)
The role of psychological safety in incident response – PagerDuty
Does the AI create the 3D model from a static camera?

Can I choose the color of the avatar? (It's not an important feature, but people will love it.)

Does it work with natural walls? (I guess the artificial walls have "handles" with an standard size that makes guesing the scale easier for the computer.)
I remember relying on slices in photoshop + tables to build out complex layouts. There was a lot of hidden content in images.
There's at least one of these in every LLM critical thread.
You might want to look into using jq --stream together with inputs/truncate_stream/fromstream and friends if you want to use jq with large inputs. Not a speed daemon but will probably use a lot less memory.
This would be an awesome feature. It would be a good resource for plant identification and I won't inadvertently introduce an invasive species into my local environment.
> I wonder if you can do better and avoid that as much as possible.

You can! However, that's basically another 100 pages of "and now let's throw all this code away again, because it's time to switch to self-tuning PD controllers with a drastically decreased polling interval".

Really an autopilot is a combination of as "super dumb, but effective" control processes (the dumber the better, because less code equal less bug equal more alive) that are ideal for PD control, but that does require running the control loop as close to "real time" as you can, whereas we started with "let's not bog down the system, and run twice a second" (because MSFS is programmed in a, let's call it "special" way, and it's basically always CPU bottlenecked)

So... exercise for the reader right now =D
Rate limit free users.

If I sign up on Monday, I might not even look at the API docs until Friday. Assume the week after that I personally like it, if I'm at a bigger company I'm probably going to spend a month or two just getting approval to expense it.
There are also varieties with temporary genetic expressions (often used as knockoffs), so it’s like buying a white sneaker that gradually turns green, haha. Some of these plants are $100-$500 for a 3” pot with a single leaf of growth.

As the new growth appears, the genetic expression is no longer the desired type. It’s a real racket.
20mph does get signed in some areas for traffic calming. NYC is dropping from 25 to 20 soon.
I don't think there have been any currencies that have been deflationary for 100+ years so it's impossible to say. Obviously currency risk is what you have to watch out for though if you're not able to consistently both spend and collect from this single currency over the lifetime of your business.
Regarding usage, I was on SO.

I specialize in Amazon Redshift.

I've written a lot of PDFs about Amazon Redshift - serious stuff, deep technical investigations and explanations, published along with the source code which produces the evidence which the PDF is based on - and when people asked questions where I'd written up the answer, I pointed them at the appropriate PDF.

After some months, I received a direct message, which looked to me to be a pro-forma, a standard message sent in this situation, from the staff that I was promoting my site and I should not do so. It was well written and polite.

That's fine - I have no problems with that, it's their web-site.

What I did not like, however, and what came over as slimey, was that the staff had also deleted every post I had made.

This was not mentioned, at all, in the well written and polite message, which then of course became disingenuous. If you're going to do something serious like that, you need to tell people, not let them discover it for themselves.

This was for all posts, where I'd explained something directly or pointed to a PDF - presumably it's a standard action SO take in this situation.

I deleted my account and left.
Evaluating bias and noise induced by the U.S. Census Bureau's privacy protection
Although it's going to feel horrible, there's no way an email telling you that you're out isn't going to 'make you feel like an outsider'. You have been made an outsider.
Theres a quick fall-off.

Sourcegraph is $99/u/m and has major network effects. For a moderately sized org this is quickly an entire developer salary.

Snyk is similarly priced, unfortunately “just buy” is a really easy way to:

a) pay more than something is woth

b) have multiple products doing the same thing. (for example, I have Miro and figjam and Mural in my company because each do something slightly better and teams have chosen the tools that work best).

That means we often double pay on licenses for ostensibly similar software.
I'll check it out! Sounds kinda similar to a game I'm playing rn on switch called dredge, though that focuses on fish.
>unresolved issues surrounding slavery

>country was founded 248 years ago

>the "issue" stopped happening 159 years ago

I don't think an issue that lasted for barely 1/3 of our country's history and hasn't been legal for the entirety of this century, last century, or much of the century before that is the problem. I think people's addiction to being full-time victims is the issue, because if you're always a victim, you never have to be responsbile for anything in your life, you can always blame your imagined "oppressor". People do this, teach their children that they are also victims regardless of their actions, and maintain a long line of familial victimhood. DEI is a direct symptom of that.
They will be solving other interesting problems caused by unemployment.
Are we all of a sudden still blindly trusting Wikipedia as a trustworthy-authoritative source because it's structured information?

Here's an example of how the IDF treats people who are clearly journalists:

Arguably behaviour of a Gestapo, no? The "wolves in clothing" aspect of this is quite the mind fuck once enough puzzle pieces come together and you realize what's realy going on; and where it makes sense that such deceit as a strategy, long-time, long-running, and long-form propaganda as a psychological manipulation strategy is the only way you can get to this stage of fascism that we're seeing with this current Israeli government.

Re: Interview with a journalist - https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6MFu5MNUoX/

Repeat behaviour, a pattern by Israel/IDF reminds me of this quotes that general go something like this: it's never the well-intentioned who want-demand censorship.

Conclusions,

We actually have the opportunity this time to stop this fascist regime in its tracks before 10s to 100s of millions of people die.

Unlike during NaZi Germany anyone who spoke up could quickly be visited by Gestapo, first reported on by 60%+ of their neighbours, and so were easily found.

Today with the internet that is still free enough - where information and evidence can rapidly be studied and curated before distribution - where there are simply too many people already who starting from the comfort of their own homes are able to see and share the truth, or at least present a different perspective - and ideally engage in long-form conversations and see if the person they're engaged with is intellectually honest or not, able to learn and incorporate new information when cognitive dissonance is triggered; there is still suppression going on as part of the "war"-control effort - an attempt to keep specific channels of indoctrinated ideologues kept in bubbles and "ideally" unexposed to questions and thought exercises that would start them down a line of thinking to shatter the veil of the propagandists.

BONUS: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C48GSaOuT5u/

- A short interview clip where it's mentioned that the Gaza bureau Chief of Al Jazeera - his wife, son, and daughter were killed in a strike; was it targeting the journalists' home and that's why it happened, or it was from their indiscriminante bombing of Gaza; which by the way, they're likely killing all of the hostages, too, right?

- So people who support these bombardments are also supporting killing their own citizens - "kill Hamas at all costs" seems to include murdering people that could have been you.
An interesting niche I came across is Carnivorous plants, where the seeds of a successful new cross can fetch 1k USD in auction. For a plant that no one knows how it will look yet.

Like this one https://www.carnivero.com/collections/auction-items/products...

People also hike through the remotest areas to find new wild species. Very cool.
How do you mean? Many of our users do this with no issues.
Can you elaborate on why? If both devices run the same OS wouldn't it just come down to hardware needs?

I ask because I'm seriously considering trying with an iPhone 12 but wonder if something glaring will get in the way or make it not ideal.
The Rabbit R1 is a Juicero remix.
I think your last point is always true, yes. I’ve never seen it not be true across a wide range of plants, whether terrestrial or aquatic.
Anduril vs Palantir - fight!
So "unlearning" is yet another overconfident implementation of an impossible task. I guess that's par for the course.

My favorite part is where literally pretending is presented as a serious option. Wow. Just..wow.